WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.400 It's a fact that women leaders and managers are much more common nowadays compared to 00:13.400 --> 00:20.040 the past. Women's participation rate in business life is increasing day by day due to factors such 00:20.040 --> 00:25.440 as the development of the socio-cultural structure of our age, the increase in women's level of 00:25.440 --> 00:31.200 education, the creation of trade union rights that support their employment, and the emergence 00:31.200 --> 00:37.600 of new fields of work. However, despite all these positive developments, the large majority of women 00:37.600 --> 00:43.680 are still struggling with inequality and injustice in business life, as well as social life. Even 00:43.680 --> 00:48.880 though the number of women actively participating in the business world is increasing, they still 00:48.880 --> 00:55.280 face many obstacles in advancing to higher executive positions. Despite being the chief architects of 00:55.280 --> 01:01.600 society, women's contributions to society are considerably underestimated or all too often 01:01.600 --> 01:07.760 simply ignored. Women are often marginalized through gender discrimination, are subjected to unjust 01:07.760 --> 01:13.680 behavior and practices. They face many difficulties in terms of working conditions, employment, 01:13.680 --> 01:20.240 recruitment, wages, and promotion. Undoubtedly, the reason behind this is a false public perception 01:20.240 --> 01:26.720 of women imposing the belief that women should only work in lower-level managerial positions. In other 01:26.720 --> 01:33.600 words, a discriminatory view toward women. Women holding positions that require a strong personality, 01:33.600 --> 01:41.200 such as management, are not considered rational by some circles. At the root of this mentality are 01:41.200 --> 01:47.760 stereotypical sentiments claiming that women are more sensitive and weaker than men, and that their 01:47.760 --> 01:58.320 sentimentality outweighs their rationality and their spiritual disposition. This misconception makes it very 01:58.320 --> 02:07.600 difficult for women to advance in their careers. The popular term, glass ceiling, explains the invisible 02:07.600 --> 02:13.520 obstacles that prevent women from advancing in business life and reaching top executive positions. 02:18.080 --> 02:23.200 These are invisible obstacles because this limitation is never explicitly talked about. 02:26.560 --> 02:32.080 While expecting a promotion, female executive candidates who want to reach senior positions 02:32.080 --> 02:35.440 women are faced with a virtual glass ceiling without knowing why. 02:39.760 --> 02:46.240 The term, glass ceiling, was first introduced in the 1970s to describe prejudices that prevented women 02:46.240 --> 02:49.200 from reaching senior management positions in the United States. 02:49.200 --> 03:04.720 Today, only a few women can overcome these obstacles. Moreover, the situation is the same in any part of the world. 03:06.800 --> 03:14.240 The truth is, women are deep thinking, reliable, clever, and wise beings. They are superior to men in 03:14.240 --> 03:23.200 spotting the intricate aspects of events and noticing the details. They can perform their tasks in the best way possible, 03:23.200 --> 03:28.560 making the right decisions, produce the best solutions, and come up with the most rational measures. 03:29.120 --> 03:34.160 Therefore, they can achieve great success both in social life and in business life. 03:34.160 --> 03:43.840 It must be recognized that keeping women away from business life is greatly detrimental to a society's future. 03:44.480 --> 03:52.320 In order to become an advanced, intellectual, and civilized society, it is imperative that women take center stage in that society. 03:53.200 --> 03:58.640 In this context, women should have equal, as a matter of fact, even more, rights and freedoms. 03:59.200 --> 04:05.280 The belief that men are somehow inherently superior to women should be eliminated altogether. 04:06.080 --> 04:11.200 The mentality that falsely claims that women lack intelligence must be urgently defeated. 04:11.760 --> 04:18.320 Women should be given priority in all areas of social life, the business world, education, and politics. 04:19.200 --> 04:23.840 At this point, we should remember that women also have important responsibilities. 04:24.400 --> 04:29.840 Women should resist with patience and vigilance the impositions of a male-dominated society, 04:29.840 --> 04:32.240 and oppose negative prejudices against them. 04:35.920 --> 04:43.520 As a matter of fact, the Queen of Saba, an example from the Quran, clearly proves that women can be state administrators, 04:43.520 --> 04:48.320 who can take very important and to-the-point decisions about the most intricate problems. 04:48.320 --> 04:54.160 We should remember that God created men and women as equal. 04:56.400 --> 05:02.720 Superiority does not lie in technical details such as body strength or the amount of muscle mass, 05:02.720 --> 05:04.800 but only in good morality and faith. 05:06.480 --> 05:12.800 God explains in the Quran that people should be evaluated not based on gender, but on piety. 05:12.800 --> 05:20.560 I seek refuge in God from Satan. 05:21.280 --> 05:25.280 Mankind, we created you from a male and female, 05:25.280 --> 05:29.360 and made you into peoples and tribes so that you may come to know each other. 05:30.000 --> 05:34.320 The noblest among you in God's sight is the one with the most piety. 05:34.320 --> 05:44.800 God is all-knowing, all-aware. 05:44.800 --> 05:52.800 The noblest among you in God is all-knowing, all-aware. 05:52.800 --> 05:56.800 The noblest among you in God is all-knowing, all-aware.